Hi Keith, > well i've looked at the parse section and can't quite figure it out... > how do you nominate that you want the parse function to take place on a > text file say "aeros.txt" rather than a string? The parse function works on a string or on a block. If you want to parse a file read the file into a string like this file-as-string: read %aeros.txt or maybe (on windows) file-as-string: read %/c/autoexec.bat If you want to parse a web based page you can do this web-page-as-string: read http://www.abc.net.au/news Then you can parse file-as-string parse-rules or parse web-page-as-string parse-rules etc.. > and how do you specify it's location? Refer to the user manual for the word READ and for accessing files. > and how would you strip off just what's after the colon and discard what is > before the colon? your-string: "FORM: Popular Recording" parse your-string [ SKIP THRU ":" COPY text [ TO newline | TO END ] (print text) ] > when you parse files, can it be done on a folder of files? > i have a stack of html files that i need to extract all text in a > particular section and then change the table cells to tabs etc but i have a > few to do and would like to run the script over the whole lot at once if > possible. Use a loop. See the manual on looping. > i can see no reference to how you parse files locally..there are only > examples of web addresses or specifying a string. The input data to parse must be a series! type. This series! can be either a string! or a block!. So if you can make your data into a string or a block you can use parse. > thanks for your help No Prob. Brett.
